by Girish Anand | Nov 21, 2015 | U.S. Supreme Court
Facing somewhat long odds, the Obama administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for an immediate stay on a federal district court injunction against its immigration executive orders that would free up nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and...
by admin | Nov 9, 2015 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans today upheld a federal judge’s injunction against President Obama’s immigration executive orders of 2014, putting a permanent hold on the plans while awaiting trial in Texas. The president’s plan,...
by admin | Oct 5, 2015 | U.S. Supreme Court
Following a series of liberal-leaning, social-changing decisions in its most recent October-to-July session, the U.S. Supreme Court reconvenes today. After Chief Justice John Roberts for the second time saved Obamacare and Justice Anthony Kennedy engineered a...
by admin | Sep 28, 2015 | Affordable Care Act, PPACA, U.S. Supreme Court
The birth control mandate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could end up before the U.S. Supreme Court following contradictory rulings by several U.S. circuit courts. This past week a three-member panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, as written...
by admin | Jul 9, 2015 | immigration, U.S. Supreme Court
Administration lawyers will be back before the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow in a second attempt to get the justices to lift a legal hold placed on the president’s immigration executive orders by a federal judge in Texas. The effort could prove to...
by admin | Jun 26, 2015 | U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has just issued a historic ruling upholding same-sex marriages in all states under the guarantees of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Judge Anthony Kennedy, who has long been a champion of marriage for all, wrote the opinion in the 5-4...
